Shockproof Sydney Skate
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060087919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Best book ever" according to Lynda M. Breeze. I discovered this book when I was a teenager in the 70's. I never could get the book out of my mind. I had given all my finds to a favorite nun who would read them return them to me with her advise. I remember the reviews were mixed. I read the book & was in love. I as an avid reader & as a child finished our library's selection of childrens' books . Lesbian Literature?? I was 23 when I read this book in 1972. It has always stuck with me. In 1972 I didn't know that this was lesbian literature. Yes, the mom is a lesbian, but, for me, the focus was on Shockproof, how he thought and felt. What astonished me then, was how a woman writer was able to so accurately describe the psyche of a 17 year old boy with whom I could. "Great quirky fiction!" according to tammyism. This coming-of-age story, published in 1972, is aptly compared to Catcher In The Rye, on the book jacket, several times. I can see why. This is quirky, smart, funny, sad, touching, dark at times but always real and connects you with it's characters in a way that popular fiction rarely accomplishes today. A great read. I read it twice in one sitting!
Nothing, however, has prepared Sydney for his mother sweeping Alison Gray, the girl of his dreams, off her feet.Witty and perceptive, Sydney's coming-of-age story has been a classic of lesbian literature since it was first published in 1973. And he has memorized the sex scenes of every book he's ever read in order to better seduce women. Hailed as the Catcher in the Rye for the seventies, Shockproof Sydney Skate exposes the confusion of its time and remains keenly relevant to the sexual abs
She lives in New York City. . Kerr. Marijane Meaker has written many young adult novels under the pseudonym of M.E
From Publishers Weekly Sydney finds himself in a quandary when the girl he loves and his mother, a lesbian, develop crushes on each other. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. "Meaker has written a very funny novel about our current preoccupation with sex and what it is doing to us," remarked PW.